<p>Who here is planning to become a BME? Which schools are you applying to, or where did you already get in?</p>
<p>Are you planning to go on to graduate school? Medical School? What are your hopes for a career?</p>
<p>I was accepted as a BME to JHU and just want to get some other's perspectives on this major.</p>
<p>Discuss!</p>
<p>BME at Northwestern. They have a 5-year BS/MS program if you have a >3.5 GPA senior year, so I'll probably do that if I have a good GPA. I think the field is really interesting with the different types of research that exists for it, and the opportunities are growing rapidly. You get to develop all types of medical devices that can help so many people, and I think that's really attractive.</p>
<p>how difficult is it to major in bme? especially in comparison to the other types of engineering out there? i'm thinking of doing a bme major and doing premed at the same time...does that sound like it's too much?</p>
<p>scorp, congrat on your ED to JHU. i am applying there, wat's your stats??? any research exp.?? (oh if you dont mind, what did you write about 10dollaressay?)</p>
<p>i'd say BME is one of the hardest engineering major.</p>
<p>it's possible to do bio-med, and i heard some people actually do,
however it would be hard, if not VERY hard.
(i mean, a requirement can be met pretty easily. but keeping up GPA and all that jazz will be very demanding.)</p>
<p>i would also like to hear real life BME experiences. any current students?</p>
<p>Hey dreaming,
Thank you.
My stats? Suprisingly lower than any BME. My $10 essay was about going to garage sales and buying toys to take apart and "reengineer" -- no research experience.</p>
<p>If you need any advice on JHU feel free to IM me or contact me in anyway or drop by JHU forum (good place!) see ya.</p>
<p>I think it depends what particular concentration within BME you are doing. It's the engineering aspect that makes the major difficult. That's why BME is much harder than a biology major.
How many BME's go on to grad school?</p>
<p>I got in ED to JHU with a major in BME... I'm very excited to go, esp since a) its the # 1 undergrad BME program in the country and b) they offer a BS/MS combined 5 year study at JHU too, which i really want to do. its nice to be able to finish bacherlors/masters in 5 years rather than 6...
any current BME's wanna give advice or relate how they like it and what they do?</p>
<p>kams1086 - can anyone in the major at JHU do the BS/MS 5 year program?</p>
<p>manchu- yea basically i think when you get into JHU (and if you are BME) you talk to your academic advisor about wanting to do the 5 year bs/ms and they will help you work your course schedule/load out for college... i think you basically apply to the graduate school (and the program) the end of your soph. or jr year or something...(in college) im not too sure how it works. but its available to all BME's</p>
<p>don't do biomedical engineering, unless u want to do research as a living or teach in a college or unless u are really interested in the subject. the hype with BME has fooled so many of us. i did an internship in high school where we were told that BME is the future, like the computer industry of the 1980s. so all of us decided to become engineers and want to do BME, i'm a sophomore engineer in college, at a top 10 engineering school, the career outlook of an engineer is very sad, especially when u consider how hard we have to work in college. the starting salaries may seem high, but u don't really make much more than the starting salaries, unless u go into the management positions. there are postdocs in my lab that can't even get an 80k job. that is pretty sad.</p>
<p>jeffl - I heard alot of people say that too about BME. But with a BME MS can't you do a variety of things ranging from engineering to research to teaching? Why do you think is BME not so popular in industries? It seems that it's similar to Chemical Engineering but chem engineers are finding jobs pretty easily.</p>
<p>teaching with an MS degree in college is hard, and u won't be paid well, with BME, master's seems to be the basic degree requirement in the industry. i think if u goto the top programs in BME like duke, and jhu, u will have a great time with jobs, but if u are going to a lesser known school, grad school may be necessary. i goto michigan, and i was told that altho BME majors are hired after graduation, they are not in great demand, because the BME undergrad curriculum is pretty much a survey of all the engineering disciplines, u really don't get to focus on anything. BME is great for grad school tho. the industry is not rising as much as it was hyped up.</p>
<p>so jeffl, what kind of engineering would u recommend based on your experience? if you could do it all over again, i guess. what engineering would u say is in the greatest demand and gets paid the highest?</p>
<p>if u want to go into engineering, i recommend that u be involved in some engineering research programs as a high school student. if u truly like this stuff, then u wouldn't worry about money, because engineers make decent living. but if u want to make a lot of money, i suggest law school, business school or medical school. as far as engineering majors in greatest demand, i think chemical engineers are always hired often, and their average salary always seems to be increasing. eecs majors do pretty well too, but there are just too many of them, they get outsourced a lot and their average starting salaries are dropping almost every year.</p>
<p>jeffl it depends what part of the country you live in when it comes to getting bme jobs. Like in CT there are quite a few healthcare companies that are constantly hiring people.</p>
<p>what's the future for chemcical engineers</p>
<p>slip4, i think the chemical engineers' futures are bright. or brighter. or at least will not be faded out. since it's a broad (used in many applications and occations) field.</p>
<p>what's the future for BME engineers?</p>
<p>what is the difference between biomedical and bioengineering?</p>
<p>I think Jeff is talking a bit out of line... I don't see any evidence supporting his claims. I know plenty of wealthy engineers. He must live near a nonmajor city area.</p>
<p>And biomedical engineering is not just for research and teaching! There are substudies and different focuses to biomedical engineering. Biomedical engineers can do research, but they also design new medical equipment, tissues, and many many many more things. I agree with you by saying that money is most likely not in biomedical engineering, but I think there is a lot of job security, as the medical industry is great to go into now.</p>
<p>i think jeff was saying it's NOT THAT MUCH of money (and there is mostly likely a limit.). i mean.. it's a lot compared to many occasions, but not compared to some other professionals. (specially when you think about how hard they study :P)</p>
<p>any ideas on The Future of The BME Engineers?</p>